| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A deceptive outward appearance: cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, façade, face, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, veneer, window-dressing. Slang : put-on. See SHOW. | | VERB: | 1. To prevent (something) from being known: cloak, conceal, cover (up), enshroud, hide1, hush (up), mask, shroud. Idioms: keep under cover, keep under wraps. See SHOW. 2. To surround and cover completely so as to obscure: cloak, clothe, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, infold, invest, shroud, wrap. See SHOW.
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